Checkstrap holder for looms



Dec. 4, 1923. 1,476,427

. W. F. SINK ET AL CHECKSTRAP HOLDER FOR LOOMS Filed ne. 28. 1921 I ammo (J W- F- 5invk G-W- chwwela i Patented Dec. 19.23.

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PATE. T QFFlCE.

WILLIAM F. SINK AND GEORGE W. CHANEY, F LEXINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

CHEGKSTRAP HGLDEB FOB LOOIVIS.

Application filed December 28, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM F. SINK and Gnonen l/V. CHANEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Lexington, in the county of Davidson and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Checkstrap Holders for Looms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in looms and more particularly to an improved check strap holder designed especially for application to the lay of a Draper loom. In the use oi? the Draper loom it has been found that alter a short period of use the check strap holder will become loosened or torn oil from the lay due to the securing bolts therefor pulling through the wood of the lay. lVhen this occurs the loom fixer will ordinarily remove the lay, repair the same by splicing, and replace it and again securing the check strap holder in place, or if the lay is so badly damaged that it cannot be spliced or otherwise repaired, it is dis- 115 carded and a new lay is substituted theretor. in any event time is wasted and expense incurred in the making of repairs or the substitution of new parts, and it is therel'ore the primary object of the present invention to provide a check strap holder which may be either initially installed upon the lay or may be employed as a repair part when the ordinary check strap holder is torn loose.

l iinother object of the invention is to provide a check stra holder which ma be a plied to any ordinary Draper loom and which will be securely held in place when installed and will present none of the disadvantages of the ordinary holder such as outlined above.

loom, 2 the picker stick which works therein, and 3 the check strap for the stick.

Serial 7N0. 525,392.

The check strap holder embodying the invention is indicated in general by the numeral 4L and the same comprises an attaching plate 5 which is preferably of the oblong rectangular form shown in Figure 3 and is designed to be disposed fiat against the underside or lower edge of the lay 1 in the manner shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings. The attaching plate 5 is provided near its ends with bolt openings 6 through which are passed securing bolts 7 fitted also through the side of the lay l, and in order to stabilize the device and thereby prevent its displacement when the bolts are tightened, it is preferable that the plate be provided upon its upper face with marginal flanges 8 which are designed to hear at their edges against the under side of the lay. At one longitudinal edge the plate 5 is provided with an integral depending lug 9 having a rectangular bolt opening 10 near its lower end, this lug depending in a plane at right angles to a plane occupied by the attaching plate and being therefore adapted to assume the ame position as the ordinary bracket plate upon the Draper loom which supports the check strap. Thus in the pres ent instance the check strap 3 is secured to the inner side of the lug 9 by a bolt 11 and is thus securely supported in place.

It will be evident from the "foregoing that the check strap holder embodying the invention is adapted to be more securely fixed and held upon the loom lay than is the ordinary bracket plate usually employed, and is not liable to be turn loose or become disarranged in the operation of the loom.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

The combination with the lay of a loom, of a check strap holder comprising an attaching plate having longitudinal marginal flanges and being secured to the under side 01: one side member of the lay and said flanges being adapted to be embedded therein, said plate being provided at one longi tudinal flange with an integral depending lug having an elongated transverse aperture for the passage of a bolt for rigidly se curingthe check strap thereto, said lug be ing oliset with relation to said plate.

In testimony whereof we atfix our signatures.

. WILLIAM F. SINK. [1 s] GEURGE W. CHANEY. [11. s] 

